Love's wounds : violence and the politics of poetry in early modern Europe / Cynthia N. Nazarian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nazarian, Cynthia Nyree, 1980- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374--Influence.

Petrarca, Francesco.

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

European poetry--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.

European poetry.

Love poetry, European--History and criticism.

Love poetry, European.

Violence in literature.

Literature and state--Europe--History--16th century.

Literature and state.

European poetry--Renaissance.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 299 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Investigates widespread metaphors of dismemberment, constraint, cannibalism, wounding, and tyranny in early modern French, English, and Italian literature. Through its comparative, inter-genre studies of Petrarch and five major Petrarchan poets of the sixteenth century, Love's Wounds shows how love poetry was actively transformed into a powerful tool for defining the nation and for reflecting on and shaping state authority"-- Northwestern University Web site.

Contents:

Abjection, violence and parrhesia from Petrarch's Canzoniere to Maurice Scève's Délie

Violence, imitation and the politics of abjection in Du Bellay's Deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse and L'olive

Martyrdom, self-dissection and the ethics of metaphor in d'Aubigné's Hécatombe à Diane and Les tragiques

Petrarchan tyranny and lyric resistance in Spenser's Amoretti and The faerie queene

Conclusion : the paradoxes of pain : Shakespeare beyond Petrarchism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Nazarian, Cynthia Nyree, 1980- author. Love's wounds.

ISBN:

9781501705229

1501705229

OCLC:

957696644